Biography:

I am a PhD student in New Testament, focusing on the concept of promise in the Epistle to the Hebrews. I am grateful to be supported in my studies by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

As an undergraduate in Classics at UCLA, I fell in love with the language, literature, and linguistics of Ancient Greek. The entire classical world fascinated me, and I enjoyed exploring its mix of cultures and its wide range of both art and philosophical thought. Following undergraduate study, I pursued a M.Div. at The Master’s Seminary. While there, I focused my studies on linguistic development between Attic and Koine Greek, early Jewish Christianity, and the interpretation of both New Testament and Patristic texts. During this time, I also served on staff at a church, teaching various groups within the church from secondary school students to adults. It was in this context that I came to more fully appreciate Hebrews, and desire to study it in depth. After graduation from seminary, I came on faculty and taught beginning Greek to both undergraduates and graduates, in addition to a graduate seminar on Hellenistic Literature. Building upon this work, in my PhD, I will focus on how the concepts of covenant and promise were used in Hebrews to provide a group identity and hope for an audience that had previously faced hardship and displacement from their property and were expecting to soon face more of the same.

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